Gironde 
Gironde (ji-rond'; F. pron. zhe-roud'), . [See girth (gerth), c. t. [< girth, n.] To bind with 
Girondist.] The party of the Girondists taken a girth. 
collectively: as, the Kolands were leaders of The ass is well i/irtlieil, and sure-footed. 
the Gironde. E - w - lMne < )Ioclel 'n Egyptians, I. 241. 
Girondin (ji-rou'din), . [F., < Gironde: see girt-line (gert'liu), . Ifaut., a whip-purchase, 
Girondist.] Same as Girondist. consisting of a rope passing through a block on 
Girondist (ji-ron'dist), >i. and a. [< F. Giron- the head of a mast, employed to raise the rig- 
(tinte, < Gironde, a party so called, prop, a de- giug of a ship for the first time. Also called 
partment of France, from which the original gant-tinc. 
leaders of this party came.] I. n. A member 
of an important political party during the first 
French revolution. From Brissot, they were some- 
times railed Briatotinx. They were moderate republicans, 
were the ruling party in 1792, and were overthrown by 
A long piece of rope top-gallant-studding-sailhalyards, 
or something of the kind is taken up to the mast-head 
from which the stay leads, and rove through a block for a 
ally call it, a gant-line. 
ors usually call it, a gant-line. 
ana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 54. 
their opponents hi' the 'convention", the "Uontagiiards, iii Gist, Jist (ji)- [Also gisse, gys, jysse ; a cor- 
1793; and many of their chiefs were executed in October ru ptioil of the name JeSIIS.] A word used as 
of that year and afterward. an oath of exclamation, affirmation, etc.: com- 
II. a. Pertaining to a member of the Gironde mQn w balladg 
or to the Gironde. 
gironnetty, gironnette (jir-on-net'i, -a), a 
See gyronnetty. 
gironny, girohn6 (ji-ron'i, -a), a. See gyronny 
girr (gir), n. [Sc., = ffinV-, n., = girth.] A 
hoop. 
The cooper o' Cuddie cam' here awa', 
By ijys, master, chain not sick, but yet chave a disease. 
Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle. 
By jis, sonne, I account the cheere good which main- 
tainetli health. Lyly, Euphues and his England, sig. C 1, b. 
By Gis, and by Saint Charity, 
Alack, and rye for shame ! 
Shale., Hamlet, iv. 5. 
'^coopero-cudd, gg. ffi ^ EngS Celling of 
girrit (gir'it), n. [Said to be Ar. ; appar. rep. 6 
guise. 
1 A O 1. V. WIKOC. 
Ar. gird, an ape.] A name of the common ba- g i ge 2 t (jjz), v . t. Same as agist. 
boon, Cynocephalus babuin. ;-g elt (giz' e l), n. [AS. gisel = OHG. gisul, Q. 
altered dim. "^SiZ = Tnpl. aM = Sw. nislan = Dan. aissel. 
girrock (gir'ok), n. [Perhaps an altered dim. --^ ~ i ce \,' gis i I- Sw". gislan = Dan. gissel, 
of gari.] A species of garfish. gidsel, a hostage.] A pledge. Gibson. 
girt 1 (gert). Preterit and past participle of gi serti ' w . A Middle English form of gizzard. 
gird 1 - ,, gisler (jis'ler), . A fish-louse, Brachiella sal- play upon a gittern. 
girt 1 (gert), p. a. 1. Naut., having her cables , , iea 
so taut, as a vessel when moored, as to prevent j gm (i izm ) n _ [Origin obscure.] A flux. 
her from swinging to the wind or tide. 2. In [Provincial or vulgar ] 
entom., same as ^braced, 2. gismondine. gismond'ite (jis-mon'din, -dit), n. 
girt 1 (gert), 0. t.^ [A var. ofjirdi, due to the [ Nam ed in honor of C. G. Gismondi, an Italian 
give 
githt (gith), n. [< ME. gith, cockle, < AS. yitli, 
cockle (also in comp. githrife, gitrife, cockle, 
gitli-r.orn, spurge-laurel, also cockle), =W. t/illi, 
cockle, < L. gith, also git, a certain plant, Roman 
coriander, A'igella satica, Gr. /ic'/.arOiov, also jit- 
/tii-nrj-eptiov (lit. 'black-seed').] 1. The fennel- 
flower, Nigella satica. 2. The corn-cockle, 
Lychnis Githago. 
And gith is laste eke in this moone ysowe. 
PallculiuH, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 184. 
gitont, n. Same as guidon. 
gitter (git'er), n. [G., a grating.] A diffraction 
grating. See diffraction Gitter spectrum, a dif- 
fraction spectrum. See dijl'i-action and spectrum. 
gittern (git'ten), . [Early mod. E. also ghit- 
tern; < ME. giterne, gyterne, gctcrnc = MD. ghit- 
erne, gliitterne, < OF. guiterne, guinterne (F. 
guitarv, > mod. E. guitar): see guitar, cittern, 
cithern, cithara, zitlier, all various forms of the 
same word.] An old instrument of the guitar 
kind strung with wire ; a cithern. 
Wheras with harpes, lutes, and r/iternes, 
They dance and plaie at dis bothe day and night. 
Chavcer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 4. 
A gittern ill-played on, accompanied with a hoarse voice, 
who seemed to sing maugre the Muses, and to be merry 
in spite of Fortune, made them look the way of the ill- 
noysed song. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
The Gittern and the Kit the wand'ring Fiddlers like. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. 36-2. 
They can no more hear thy yhitleru's tune. Keats. 
gittern (git'ern), v. i. [Early mod. E. also ghit- 
tern; < ME. gyternen, < giterne, gittern.] To 
"pret. and pp.] Same as gird'. 
Captain, you shall eternally girt me to you, as I am gen- 
erous. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
Put on his spurs, and girt him with the sword, 
Tlie scourge of inndels, and types of speed. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, v. 2. 
By girting it about with a string, and so reducing it to 
the square, &c., you may giue a neer guess. 
Evelyn, Sylva, xxix. 
Surface painting is measured by the superficial yard, 
liirting every part of the work covered. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 438. 
girt'^ 
mineralogist (1762-1824).] A mineral which 
is a hydrous silicate of aluminium and calcium, 
found near Rome in white translucent octahe- 
dral crystals. 
gispint, n. [Origin obscure.] A leathern pot 
for liquor. Nares. 
In this great disaster, 
Raymond, the soldiers, mariners, and master 
Lost heart and heed to rule ; then up starts Jones, 
Calls for six gispins, drinks them off at once. 
Legend of Captain Junes (1059). 
(g6rt), H. 
gin*-.] 
[A var. of girth, due to the verb gist^t 
form girti.] Same as girth. 
The saddle with broken girts was driven from the horse. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
Horse, bridles, saddles, stirrups, girts. 
B. Jonson, Love s Welcome at Welbeck. 
He is a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three 
yards in the girt, and the best Church of England man 
upon the road. Additon, The Tory Foxhunter. 
Surfaces under 6 in. in width or r/irt are called 6 in. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 438. 
girt 3 t. An obsolete preterit and past participle 
of gird 2 . 
Thurgh girt with many a grevous blody wound. 
ME. giste, gyste, a resting-place, couch, also a 
horizontal beam, a joist (joist, corrupted from 
jist (pron. jist), being the mod. form), < OF. 
giste, F. gite, lodging, form, seat, bed, deposit, 
< OF. gesir, F. gesir, < L. jacere, lie : see ja- 
cent, jet 1 . Cf. gisft.] 1. A resting-place; a 
couch. 2. A lodging-place ; a place of rest or 
halt in traveling. 
The guides . . . had commandment so to cast their gists 
and journeys that by three of the clock on the . . . third 
day they might assail Pythomn. 
Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 1093. 
3. A beam: same as joist. 
Cha*mer"'Ki\lghVs Tale',!. 1012. gist 2 (jist), n. [Sometimes pron. jit, and in the 
girth (gerth), . [Se. also gird* and girr, E. 18th century sometimes written jet (see jet*) ; 
diaL garth* (see these forms); < ME. girth, < OF. gist (F. gtt), in the proverb Je scay 
gcrth,< Icel. gjordh, a girdle, girth, = Sw. Dan bien ou ."*' le lievre, I know well which is the 
gjord, a girth^ = Goth, galrda, a girdle: see v . er y P omt or ^ of ^ atte F. (Cotgrave) 
girdi, girdle!.] 1 . A band or girdle ; especial- }?* J kn w ^ell where the hare lies ; so '< c'est 
J.L ^11 1^ rtllQ ttSt IQ lli-UTQ tllfiTft lldQ t.llA Hlffi 
ly, a band passed under the belly or a horse 
or other animal, and drawn tight and fastened, 
to secure a saddle or a pack on its back. 
All strookehis horse together with their launcesas they 
brake pectorall, girses, and all, that the horse slips away, 
and leaues the king and the saddle on the ground. 
Daniel, Hist. Eng., p. 46. 
The girth of his saddle is drawn up a hole or two, the 
blanket first pulled well forward. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 203. 
2. The measure round a person's body or round 
a pillar, tree, or anything of a cylindrical or 
roundish shape. 
I wished to increase the girth of my chest, somewhat 
diminished by a sedentary life. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 203. 
3. A girdling; a circuit; a perimeter; an en- 
circling inclosure. 
One dark little man stood, sat, walked, lectured, under 
the head-piece of a bandit bonnet-grec, and within the 
4. In car-building, a long horizontal bracing- 
timber on the inside of the frame of a box-car. 
"S In nrintinn nnn nf rwr> hnnria nf IpntliPr 
or stout webbing (also called straps) attached 
to the rounce of a hand-press, used for running 
the carriage in and out To slip the girths, to fall 
like a pack-horse's burden when the girths give way. 
[Scotch.] 
, que git le lievre," there lies the difficulty, lit. 
that's where the hare lies ; cf . " tout git en cela," 
the whole turns upon that; gist, F. git, in 
these expressions being the 3d pers. sing. ind. 
pres. (< L. jacet) of OF. gesir, F. gesir, < L. 
jacere, lie: see jacent, jefl-. Cf. gisfl.] The 
point on which an action rests; the substance 
or pith of a matter ; the main point : as, the gist 
of an argument. 
The gist of sacrifice is rather in the worshipper giving 
something precious to himself than in the deity receiving 
benefit. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 359. 
A hint taken, a look understood, conveys the gist of 
long and delicate explanations. 
R. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, iv. 
Gist of an action, in law, the foundation or essential 
matter of an action ; that without which there is no cause 
of action. 
git 1 (git), v. An obsolete or dialectal form of 
get 1 . 
" (jit), n. Same as geaft. 
n. An obsolete form of gin ft. 
n. [ME. gite, gyte, also gide, gyde ; of un- 
origin.] A gown. 
And she cam after in a gt/te of reed, 
And simkin hadde hoseu of the same. 
Chavcer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 84. 
A stately nimph, a dame of heauenly kinde, 
Whose glitt'ring gite BO glimsed in mine eyes 
As (yet) I [saw] not what proper hew it bare. 
Gaecoignc, Philomene. 
He singeth in his vois gentil and smal, . . . 
Ful wel acordyng to his gyterntfiige. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 177. 
The first chorus beginning, may relate the course of the 
citty, each evening with mistresse or Ganymed, gittern- 
ing along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan 
or down the stream. 
Milton, Subjects for Tragedies, in Life by Birch. 
Gittite (git'It), n. A native or an inhabitant 
of ancient Gath, one of the chief cities of the 
Philistines. 
Elhanan . . . slew the brother of Goliath the Gitlite. 
2 Sam. xxi. 19. 
gittith (git'ith), n. [Heb.] A word found only 
in the headings of Psalms viii., Ixxxi., and 
Ixxxiv. : "To the Chief Musician upon Git- 
tith" (revised version, "For the Chief Musi- 
cian; set to Gittith"): probably a musical in- 
strument or a tune connected in some way with 
the Gittites. 
gittont, n. Same as guidon. 
One gitton of red with the sun of gold and a heart in the 
midst. Jour. Arch&ol. Ass., XXIV. 157. 
giustt, n. and v. A pseudo-Italian spelling of 
iust. See just 2 . 
giusto (jos'to), a. [It., just, < L. justm, just.] 
In musical notation, suitable; regular; strict: 
as, tempo giusto. 
give 1 (giv), v. ; pret. gave, pp. given, ppr. giniiig. 
[Early mod. E. also geve, yei-e ; < ME. given, 
geven, more commonly given, geven, yiven, yeven 
(pret. gaf, gaf, yaf, pi. gafen, garni, yaven, pp. 
gifen, given, yiven, yeven, etc.), < AS. gifan, gie- 
fan, gyfan (pret. geaf, pi. geaj'on, pp. gifen) = 
OS. gehhan = OFries. icva, gera = D. geren = 
MLG. LG. geven, gewen = OHG. geban, MHG. 
G. geben = Icel. gefa = Sw. gifva = Dan. give 
= Goth, giban, give; a general Teut. word. 
Hence gift, giffgaff, and geu'gaw.] I. trans. 1. 
To deliver, convey, or transfer to another for 
possession, care, keeping, or use. (a) To deliver 
or convey freely and without consideration or return ; be- 
stow : as, to give alms ; to give one a present ; to give large 
sums for the promotion of some cause. 
Though the riche repente thanne and birewe the tyme, 
That euere he gadered so grete and gaf there of so lltel. 
Piers Plowman (B), xii. 250. 
Not only these fair bounds, but all the earth 
To thee and to thy race I give. 
Milton, P. L., viii. 389. 
O then, delay not ! if one ever gave 
His life to any, mine I give to thee ; 
Come, tell me what the price of love must be ? 
WiUiam Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 380. 
(b) To deliver or convey in exchange or for a considera- 
tion ; deliver as an equivalent or in requital, recompense, 
or reward ; pay : as, to giue a good price ; to give good 
wages. 
Is It lawfull for us to gene Caesar tribute or no? 
Bible c/1551, Luke xx. 22. 
Then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul 
unto the Lord. Ex. xxx. 12. 
What should one give to light on such a dream ? 
Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 
(c) To hand over for present use or for keeping ; convey 
or present; place in the possession or at the disposal of 
another : as, to give a horse oats ; to give one a seat ; he 
gave me a book to read. 
